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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
asked several incoming prisoners after that whether they had any
news of Cramer.
After D-Day, June 6, 1944, the flood of new arrivals became a
deluge. The first German D-Day prisoner, an Obergefreiter Dahlmanns,
arrived on June 7. C.S.D.I.C. shipped out another batch of
generals to the U.S.A. on June 17 – Arnim and Crüwell among them:
they had been squeezed dry. Von Thoma, always a willing source,
stayed on. General von Schlieben arrived at C.S.D.I.C. on June 26
from Cherbourg, where he had been Festungskommandant. He was
following during August 1944 by General der Infanterie Dietrich
von Choltitz (lately commandant of Paris), and in September 1944
by a further wave of generals including General der Panzertruppe
Hans Eberbach, General der Fallschirmjäger Hermann Ramcke,
and Generalleutnant Ferdinand Heim.
Preparations were made for C.S.D.I.C. to continue operations
after Germany’s defeat. On October 10, 1944 the J.I.C. approved the
transfer of a C.S.D.I.C. interrogation team to the Continent to assist
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (S.H.A.E.F.).
This team visited the theatre for two weeks in November 1944 for
discussions with the staffs of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery officers, and the unit would
begin operating on July 28, 1945, as C.S.D.I.C.(W.E.A.) B.A.O.R.
As the fighting in Germany came to an end the U.S. Seventh
Army made plans to set up a permanent Military District Interrogation
Center at Augsburg. On April 4 the Seventh Army’s former
MU 500, C.S.D.I.C., was redesignated Mobile Field Interrogation
Unit No.5 (C.S.D.I.C.), Seventh Army; this unit provided the nucleus
for the new Seventh Army Interrogation Center (SAIC) set up
at Augsburg. Colonel W.G. Caldwell, the adjutant general of Seventh
Army, laid down that the S.A.I.C. would select these prisoners
for detailed interrogation: high ranking officers, especially of the
Generalstab, high officials of the Regierung, N.S.D.A.P.; Beamten
Among forty boxes holding sets of C.S.D.I.C. reports archived at the Fed-
Among forty boxes holding sets of C.S.D.I.C. reports archived at the Federal
Records Center at Suitland, Maryland, are those of C.S.D.I.C.(W.E.A.)
B.A.O.R. (boxes 779-82); C.S.D.I.C. India; and the C.S.D.I.C. SIR-reports
numbers 1 – 1730 (boxes 768-78). NA: RG.165, entry 79, boxes 743-82.